By BENJAMIN DANGL Toward Freedom | Film Review Reviewed: "Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action" A Documentary Film by Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox. Published by PM Press/Estreito Meios Productions When the worst financial crisis since the...
Obama should be held accountable for vastly expanding the military establishment's worldwide license to kill. By FRED BRANFMAN Alternet Although President's Obama's partial Afghan troop withdrawal announcement has received more attention, his June 29 "National...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BACACAY, Albay -- The main road from Cagraray Island port to the village of Cabasan in this town was beautifully lined with mats, the leaves still green, some with neon strips of yellow, pink and green. Like the Central Luzon highways...
Karl G. Ombion The Essentials Sunstar In this column I divert from my usual subjects on renewal energy, science and technology, and national development, because I am quite disturbed by the continuing state political persecution of the leaders, organizers, mass...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld BENIGNO AQUINO III has an approval rating of between 68 and 70 percent, most probably because he hasn’t done anything scandalous or controversial. That says something about how low Filipinos’ expectations of their...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star We began this column in August last year with two pieces that dwelt on the historical background of the protracted land dispute in Hacienda Luisita Inc. and the oral arguments before the Supreme Court over...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Four hundred thirty participants from two hundred organizations and forty three countries, territories and autonomous regions from all continents packed the plenary hall of the 4th International Assembly of the...
In the Philippines, the absence of social services forces even the elderly to work to eke out a living. And the elderly woman in the photo looks prepared, with umbrella and all. But what she may have not prepared for is the probability that her income from selling...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Indigenous woman Thangjam Manorama of Manipur was raped and murdered by paramilitary forces of India on July 11, 2004. Until now, despite the positive identification of the perpetrators, justice remains elusive. Manipuri...
At first glance, the Supreme Court decision upholding the revocation of the Stock Distribution Plan at Hacienda Luisita, in lieu of land distribution, then calling for a referendum to make the farm workers decide whether they would retain their "shares" or opt to...
Letter to the Editor Bulatlat.com 08 July 2011 Political will is needed to develop and effect a shift to renewable energy, not double talk and inconsistency. Our national and local government leadership should start serious efforts in clarifying their energy...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Wednesday militant Filipino trade unionists rallied in front of the Greek embassy in solidarity with a two-day general strike in financially-prostrate Greece. The strike aimed at blocking the Parliament...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The territorial dispute over the resource-rich and strategically-located Spratlys islands, highlighted by alleged recent incursions and other aggressive actions of China into areas also claimed by the Philippines...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld HE’S been dead for 22 years, having died in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 28, 1989 at the age of 72, but Ferdinand Marcos haunts us still. The most recent manifestation of the ghost of atrocities past came in the...
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com The last time I puked, literally, during a movie was while watching the 2002 French arthouse Irreversible where Monica Belluci’s character, Alex, was being raped brutally in an underpass until she died. And then, I finally...
BAGUIO CITY -- With the strong typhoon veering out of the country and will not be affecting the archipelago anymore, workers at a house construction here double time to finish their jobs before another typhoon comes that will bring rains and stall further them....
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Editor's note: This article was originally published under the title "Filipinos in Australia Deplore ARMM Elections Postponement." The correct title should be "Global Filipinos Australia deplores ARMM elections postponement" By TheFilipinoAustralian.com Global...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld One aspect of the debate over what the Philippines can do in its territorial dispute with China over the Spratlys is the wisdom of inviting, nay imploring, the US, by invoking the Mutual Defense Treaty and waxing...
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